Godless Americans

Politics and religion go together like biscuits and gravy. Here's some junk mail produced by an organization affiliated with Elizabeth Dole, the Republican Senator from North Carolina who was trying to win reelection in 2008. 

There's nothing like painting a political opponent as an atheist who hates Christmas and the Pledge of Allegiance. 

This ad is a prime example of what rhetoricians call a false analogy. It also follows the post hoc, ergo propter hoc formula of argumentation that is pretty common in political advertisements. 

Elizabeth Dole lost reelection, by the way.